Various Wise People

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
--Jane Austen

"Preach always. If necessary use words."
--St. Francis of Assisi

"An eye for an eye makes everybody blind."
--Ghandi

"War does not determine who is right, only who is left."
--Bertrand Russell

"If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."
--Elbert Hubbard

". . . a handsome, amiable, unexceptionable Young Man (such as do not much abound in real life)"
--Austen

"The key to life is choosing your obsession wisely."
--Tom Hanks

"People are idiots."
--Dr. Browning

"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."
--Rossetti

"I am in shape. Round is a shape."
--Anon

"No problem's so big and complicated that it can't be run away from."
--Linus in "Peanuts"

"See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?"
--Buddha


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